Prasanna Mishra

Alliance with BJD will stall Odisha's aspiration for a BJP government

By and large, MSP arrangement leading to Government purchase has been implemented in varying degrees among states and it has been mostly limited to rice and wheat.

As of December 2021, the maximum share of “sanctioned strength” of employees was for the School and Mass Education Department at 40 % followed by the Home Department at 14% and the Health and Family...

As per official reports, the OS shops in 2022-23 utilised 15.34 lakh quintals of Mohua flower for producing liquor. The official figure that the OS shops produced in 2022-23 as much as 644 lakh London...

Those who think Naveen Patnaik finally has chosen his successor are, therefore, not off the mark. That explains why Pandian’s formal entry to the Party has created the present buzz, and why there is so...

“Nabin Odisha” has emerged as a scheme of the Government of Odisha, and, by a formal government notification, Shri VK Pandian, the erstwhile Private Secretary to Odisha’s Chief Minister for years

For critics, this has been a saga of skulduggery perpetrated by persons whose duty was to protect and preserve constitutional niceties.

While this chaos continues and the denizens have accepted the mess as the new normal, they are suddenly greeted with an announcement of a Metro service for the city -- in perfect sync with the...

One Nation one Election in India would seriously affect the federal spirit of our Constitution. Even if it happens, the Election process is going to be too protracted and it would be months before the...

The CSP Plus Bank outlets, if and when they appear, would have to function in this relaxed and footloose ambiance. It would be nothing short of a miracle if the CSP Plus Avatar succeeds.

As of now, however, the state and the government keep suffering from an unnatural arrangement that has made the bureaucracy much less effective and highly politicised.

The second phase of the Budget Session of the Parliament was washed away in the clamour of the ruling Party for his apology for his alleged statements against the country on foreign soil.

The Constitution Bench had observed that an unaccountable and non-responsive civil service may pose a serious problem of governance in a democracy. 

In an exclusive chat with them, the suave Party Supremo advised them to work wholeheartedly to strengthen the Party. The massive revamping saw entry of more women legislators into the Council of Ministers raising their...

These three ancient Railway Stations, older than Cuttack and Puri, deserve world-class facilities as well.  Another Railway Station that deserves a much better infrastructure is Koraput, the nerve center of the southern part of Odisha. 

At the cost of repetition, it needs to be said again that a dense forest has always been an effective defence against rapid precipitation runoff.

The gruesome killing of Atiq and his brother only proved that the apprehension of Atiq expressed in his prayer to the Apex Court that his life was in danger was true. It also highlighted that...

He also spoke about the demand for a JPC probe on the issue and felt this was not necessary if the Supreme Court were to conduct an inquiry as that course would provide a better...

It is however a fact that people of Odisha are temperamentally peaceful. We need, however to examine if the state has actually been attracting investment satisfactory enough to feel cheerful about. 

Why Rahul Gandhi, a senior leader of Indian National Congress Party and a Member of Indian Parliament should not have said what he did, has been indirectly explained by his cousin, Varun Gandhi, a leader...